This summer has been flying by and I can't believe it is already July. I will for sure go back and write about our Nauvoo trip, but writing about everything that has happened since January feels a little overwhelming so I am just going to skip so 6 months and start fresh. The summer has been great! Like I mentioned we had our amazing Nauvoo trip and will always remember what a wonderful trip that was. We can't wait to do something like it again. We have also been up to Orem a couple of times to visit family, we had a really fun 4th of July in Orem.
My kids are all getting better at playing in the water and enjoying being outside even though it super hot. We bought paddle boards a while back and have taken them out to the lake a few times which has been so fun for the kids. Even Easton and Bennett love to sit on the paddle board while Nate adn i paddle. It has been the summer of Jack becoming more brave. He goes out on the paddleboards and the water all by himself, he jumped off a cliff into about 10 feet of water, and rock climb the other day in deep water. Its been so fun to help him see that he can actually swim in deep water!
Yesterday we went out to Enterprise to visit some friends with the Jenkins. And then we went on a really fun hike in between Cedar in Newcastle call the Lions Mouth which has some really cool petroglyphs. We also went to the Manti pageant with the Guidrys and the Jenkins. Its so fun having friends that have kids my kids age. Even though they have 5 boys Maddie gets along with her oldest boy really well. And they are good friends.
We spent fathers day and Nate's birthday in Orem and that was fun. Nate is now 36 years old! Maddie's birthday is coming up soon and I can't believe she is going to be a teenager. Easton and Jack and Bennett all had birthdays and they are all getting so much older. Easton has just joined the potty train! It's time for him not to have poopy diapers anymore so he is now on the potty train and will hopefully figure it all out within the next couple of days. I go to girls camp next week with Maddie and I am super excited about that.
We took Maddie and her Key of Liberty class friends out to the lake a couple of weeks ago and she had so much fun! I'm so grateful for the good friends that she has made through the homeschool community. We are planning on continuing homeschooling her through high school, even though it gives me a lot of anxiety trying to figure out how to do exactly that. I just hope she has a fun experience and enjoys high school as a homeschooler. She wants to run on the cross country team which I will probably let her continue doing.
The biggest news that we have is that we are moving. We have always wanted to own rental property, but because of finances we can't really stay where we are at and buy a new house to rent out, so we are going to rent our house, which is actually under contract right now, and buy a new house which is actually under contract right now and we sign on the 19th of this month. I'm very excited but super nervous. We went from one extreme to another moving from Stoneridge all the way out to the country and don't have any neighbors, and now we were are going to an in between living in St. George and Washington near Costco. We will have neighbors, and lots of young families in our ward which I'm excited about, but I am also nervous about it also! Our friends Shelly and Dave Harris live in that ward, and it is actually a ward and neighborhood that we were considering buying in before we moved to Leeds. Maybe it's meant to be. The home is a little bit bigger, but on a much smaller yard. I think it will work for our family right now. I think Nate feel so overwhelmed with yard work and work and all that he is going through.
Life for us is good too, we still have our struggles every so often but it seems that we are getting closer and working harder to have our family and our relationship where it should be. Sometimes I think it's really interesting that we start off these marriages and have such high expectations, I'm just grateful that we can work through hard stuff and struggles and become better from what we learn. I sure love him and am grateful for the man that he is and the provider that he, and the dad he is for my children. I know life won't always be perfect but it feels really good right now and I am very grateful to God for that. Everybody has stayed healthy for the most part this season. I had a really bad ear infection a few weeks ago which resulted in 8 having to pour oil in my ear and me screaming so loud it woke all the children up! It's been a good half of the year! I hope I get back into this blogging thing. It's good for me to write about my personal life!
My kids are all getting better at playing in the water and enjoying being outside even though it super hot. We bought paddle boards a while back and have taken them out to the lake a few times which has been so fun for the kids. Even Easton and Bennett love to sit on the paddle board while Nate adn i paddle. It has been the summer of Jack becoming more brave. He goes out on the paddleboards and the water all by himself, he jumped off a cliff into about 10 feet of water, and rock climb the other day in deep water. Its been so fun to help him see that he can actually swim in deep water!
Yesterday we went out to Enterprise to visit some friends with the Jenkins. And then we went on a really fun hike in between Cedar in Newcastle call the Lions Mouth which has some really cool petroglyphs. We also went to the Manti pageant with the Guidrys and the Jenkins. Its so fun having friends that have kids my kids age. Even though they have 5 boys Maddie gets along with her oldest boy really well. And they are good friends.
We spent fathers day and Nate's birthday in Orem and that was fun. Nate is now 36 years old! Maddie's birthday is coming up soon and I can't believe she is going to be a teenager. Easton and Jack and Bennett all had birthdays and they are all getting so much older. Easton has just joined the potty train! It's time for him not to have poopy diapers anymore so he is now on the potty train and will hopefully figure it all out within the next couple of days. I go to girls camp next week with Maddie and I am super excited about that.
We took Maddie and her Key of Liberty class friends out to the lake a couple of weeks ago and she had so much fun! I'm so grateful for the good friends that she has made through the homeschool community. We are planning on continuing homeschooling her through high school, even though it gives me a lot of anxiety trying to figure out how to do exactly that. I just hope she has a fun experience and enjoys high school as a homeschooler. She wants to run on the cross country team which I will probably let her continue doing.
The biggest news that we have is that we are moving. We have always wanted to own rental property, but because of finances we can't really stay where we are at and buy a new house to rent out, so we are going to rent our house, which is actually under contract right now, and buy a new house which is actually under contract right now and we sign on the 19th of this month. I'm very excited but super nervous. We went from one extreme to another moving from Stoneridge all the way out to the country and don't have any neighbors, and now we were are going to an in between living in St. George and Washington near Costco. We will have neighbors, and lots of young families in our ward which I'm excited about, but I am also nervous about it also! Our friends Shelly and Dave Harris live in that ward, and it is actually a ward and neighborhood that we were considering buying in before we moved to Leeds. Maybe it's meant to be. The home is a little bit bigger, but on a much smaller yard. I think it will work for our family right now. I think Nate feel so overwhelmed with yard work and work and all that he is going through.
Life for us is good too, we still have our struggles every so often but it seems that we are getting closer and working harder to have our family and our relationship where it should be. Sometimes I think it's really interesting that we start off these marriages and have such high expectations, I'm just grateful that we can work through hard stuff and struggles and become better from what we learn. I sure love him and am grateful for the man that he is and the provider that he, and the dad he is for my children. I know life won't always be perfect but it feels really good right now and I am very grateful to God for that. Everybody has stayed healthy for the most part this season. I had a really bad ear infection a few weeks ago which resulted in 8 having to pour oil in my ear and me screaming so loud it woke all the children up! It's been a good half of the year! I hope I get back into this blogging thing. It's good for me to write about my personal life!
